Persona 2/Characters: Difference between revisions

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** It's surprising that it isn't a [[Memetic Mutation|full-blooded meme]].

* [[Height Equals Badassery]]: Eikichi is the tallest character playable character in ''Persona 2''. Actually, he's the tallest playable character in all the ''Persona'' games.

* [[Hot-Blooded]]

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: He's passionate about justice, beauty and rock n' roll, baby.

* [[I Am the Band]]: His original bandmates don't even merit profile pics (well, ''one'' of them does).

* [[Idiot Hero]]: Behaves like he's on-stage ''all the time''.

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{{quote|"We ain't in some kinda video game, are we? It ''is'' gonna be the 21st century, right? Come on, "[[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World|high school kids fight with the fate of the world hanging in the balance]]"?" (PSX fan translation)<br />

"This ain't a video game, you know? We're nearly into the 21st century here. Why are high schoolers fighting to save the world?" (PSP translation)}}

* [[Man in a Kilt]]

* [[Man in a Kilt]]: A non-fanservice example.

* [[Multicolored Hair]]: He looks like a kitchen match.

* [[Narcissist]]: Constantly looking at his hand mirror and praising his own reflection.

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* [[The Atoner]]

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: His official profile states that [[Crossdresser|crossdressing]] is one of his talents, to the point where he looks better in a dress than most girls, and his group demon negotiation contract with Lisa involves her jumping him and putting makeup on him... and then getting depressed over how much prettier he is then her.

* [[Badass]]

* [[Badass]]:

** [[Badass Bookworm]]

** [[Badass Bookworm]]: He's both sensitive and brainy, and more than a little Machiavellian.

** [[Cultured Badass]]: This guys kicks ass with [[Suck My Rose|flowers]].

** [[Four-Star Badass]]: {{spoiler|As leader of the Masked Circle, which he orders to face down The Last Battalion in ''Innocent Sin''}}.

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* [[Best Served Cold]]: {{spoiler|Jun crafted his Joker identity in order to wreak revenge on Tatsuya, Lisa and Eikichi, whom he blames for Maya Amano's 'death'}}.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

* [[Bishonen]]: Noted in-universe to be unusually pretty even in comparison to actual women.

* [[Bishonen]]

* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Jun is quite intelligent, but was shipped off to Kasaguyama High School for delinquents. Why? His Persona maimed everyone who ever dared to bully him.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: He seems to be based on Simone Verdricci, from ''[[Suikoden II]]'' because they use the same weapon (Throwing Flower). Also somewhat reminiscent of Kurama from ''Yu Yu Hakusho'', as an effeminate pretty boy who uses flowers as weapons.

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* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Better not laugh at someone who can send your ass to the cleaners with a daisy.

* [[More Than Mind Control]]

* [[Nom De Mom]]: Was it even his choice? Or just a parting shot at his father from Junko?

* [[Nom De Mom]]

* [[Number One Dime]]: A watch given to him by Tatsuya when they were children. In exchange, Jun traded his Zippo lighter.

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Defeating him the first time causes Jun to be {{spoiler|possessed by Nyarlathotep, becoming the Angel Joker}}.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]/[[Parental Neglect]]: See [[Freudian Excuse]] above.

* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: His bangs cover his right eye. Because his mother wears hers in the exact same way, this doubles as a [[Hereditary Hairstyle]].

* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]

* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Although he is indeed effeminate in both his appearance and personal hobbies, it is somewhat implied that he is this towards Tatsuya rather than being outright homosexual because Tatsuya was the only one who cared for him in his past while everyone else ignored or hated him, at least until he met the rest of the protagonists.

* [[Sixth Ranger]]

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: He joins late and replaces Yukino in the party roster.

* [[The Smart Guy]]: Without a doubt the most objectively intelligent of the original Masked Circle. At seventeen, he already has a patent of his own (for an orthopedic shoe, in case you were wondering), and the guidebook notes that he’s excellent at mathematics and physics. He’s also deeply philosophical, and has more sophisticated hobbies (''hanakotoba'', astrology) than his peers.

* [[The Smart Guy]]

* [[Something About a Rose]]: Wears a yellow flower in his lapel pocket.

* {{spoiler|[[Utopia Justifies the Means]]}}

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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Harbors an unspoken crush on her mentor Fujii Shunsuke.

* [[Badass]]

* [[Badass]]:

** [[Retired Badass]]: Former gang kid, so she was badass in a different way before being a good guy, as pointed out from the first game. Becomes a straighter example of this in ''Eternal Punishment'', in which she becomes a minor character.

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]

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* [[Adorkable]]: He's a cop who wonders if the penal code applies to demons, and ''he will even interrogate them as a contact option''! Her also has a HUGE crush on {{spoiler|Maya Amano}}, and because he's got a crippling case of [[Cannot Spit It Out]], he calls her {{spoiler|Ms. Amano}}, even towards the end of the game.

* [[Agent Scully]]: Though he is completely open to the possibly of demons (he's a skeptic, not an idiot), it's a little naive of him to expect to include such outrageous claims in his police reports.

* [[Agent Scully]]

* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: In ''Innocent Sin'', Tatsuya's big brother Katsuya appears to be a cold-hearted jerk preoccupied with his job. However, ''Eternal Punishment'' subverts this showing us that from Katsuya's point of view, he's trying his best to be a good brother, and Tatsuya is the one causing the problems.

* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: Believes very much in the letter of the law, which is why he and Baofu don't get along. He even verges into [[Lawful Stupid]] at times (Dude tries to read ''demons'' their rights!).

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* [[Clueless Chick Magnet]]: Katsuya is ''very'' popular amongst the female officers, but is totally oblivious to it. He's similar to his brother in that respect.

* [[The Comically Serious]]: He ponders whether the penal code applies to demons.

* [[Cool Loser]]: He may be stiff, one-track minded, and socially inept, but he's still a well-dressed police sergeant who is ''not to be screwed with''.

* [[Cool Loser]]

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Determinator]]: This man has sworn to put an end to the JOKER case, and he doesn't let corruption or superpowered beings stand in his way. Several characters in the games, the villains included, lampshade his zeal.

* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: Katsuya and Baofu's Contact option.

* [[Fair Cop]]

* [[Fair Cop]]: Comes with being so straight-laced.

* [[Fan Service Pack]]: He looks like a hardassed, somewhat unattractive version of himself in ''Innocent Sin'', though since he's seen from Tatsuya's POV, this is Tatsuya's perception of him. ''Eternal Punishment'' pretties him up slightly by virtue of seeing him via Maya's POV.

* [[Firing One-Handed]]

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** That's "[[Insistent Terminology|patissier]]".

* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: Katsuya turns in a big softie over cats, [[Real Men Wear Pink|which he finds cute]]. He's even pleased his initial Persona manifests as a cat. Unfortunately, cats also seem to give him allergies.

* [[The Lancer]]: While Maya is the main character, as a police officer, he's probably the most qualified member of the party to be handling the chaos in Sumaru City (not that that's saying much).

* [[The Lancer]]

* [[Military Salute]]: Is the only one to salute back to {{spoiler|Lieutenant General Zula}} in the PSP remake of ''Eternal Punishment''. [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|Easy to figure out why.]]

* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Remarks on having drunk a lot of coffee.

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* [[Arachnid Appearance and Attire]]

* [[Badass]]

* [[Badass]]:

** [[Heartbroken Badass]]: Her heart was broken by a con artist. Her response: [[Take a Level In Badass]] so she could shove his teeth down his throat.

** [[Take a Level In Badass]]: Borderline [[Dirty Coward]] in the beginning of the game, but attains a lot of spine along with some [[Character Development]] after Maya frees her from the {{spoiler|JOKER curse}}.

* [[Beauty Mark]]

* [[Beauty Mark]]: Possesses one under her right eye.

* [[The Big Guy]]: Well, girl. Her primary contribution to the party is to punch things to death.

* [[The Big Guy]]

* [[Bottle Fairy]]

* [[Christmas Cake]]: Ulala lets slip the fact that she's 24 (this might explain her irritability).

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* [[Face Monster Turn]]: Revealed later in the game to be the one who {{spoiler|dialed JOKER to kill Maya}}, setting the events of ''Eternal Punishment'' into motion. This comes back to bite her when the Chiruzu Ishagami broadcasts a rumor that JOKER {{spoiler|infects anyone who performed the curse}}.

* [[Fortune Teller]]: She's obsessed with horoscopes, and even uses them in her Contact option.

* [[The Ladette]]

* [[The Ladette]]: Though she's still a much better housekeeper and cook than Maya.

* [[Magic Dance]]: Her unlockable Contact option is the Flamenco, with [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Katsuya on acoustic guitar]].

* [[Multicolored Hair]]

* [[Multicolored Hair]]: Red with white streaks.

* [[The Nicknamer]]: In the English localization, her pet name for Baofu is "Bao".

** Once Tatsuya joins up, Ulala starts referring to him and his brother as "Big Suou" and "Little Suou".

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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Even before {{spoiler|adopting his false identity}}, Baofu enjoyed tipping a few back.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: He's a [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type III]] at heart, but acts like a Type V.

* [[Badass]]

* [[Badass]]:

** [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]: He's not exactly ''inconspicuously'' dressed.

** [[Badass Long Hair]]

** [[Heartbroken Badass]]: {{spoiler|His lover was murdered by the Taiwanese Mafia, and he wants revenge}}.

* [[Best Served Cold]]: Formerly a {{spoiler|special prosecutor}}, he was forced to [[Faking the Dead|fake his death]] after the Taiwanese mafia attempted to kill him. He has spent his days hunting the man who ordered the hit, Tatsuzou Sudou.

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]:

** [[Genius Bruiser]]: Proof, you ask? According to Word of God, Baofu became a {{spoiler|prosecutor}} because someone he knew mentioned that the examination tests were really hard. He took the exam, and passed with flying colors—on ''his first try''.

* [[Creepy Good]]